Dyche Happy With Hawthorns Point

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2020-10-19T19:31:00.000Z

Dyche Happy With Hawthorns Point

2020-10-19T19:31:00.000Z

Sean Dyche was content as he saw his players deliver more of a ‘Burnley performance’ in the stalemate at West Bromwich Albion.

The Clarets had the best chances of a tight affair, but had to settle for their first Premier League point of the season at the Hawthorns.

And the boss took the positives from the display, which give the visitors a platform from which to build.

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“The pleasing thing for me is that I spoke last week about getting back to being us and our performance levels. We were quite a long way back towards that tonight,” said Dyche.

Psychologically, it’s good to get your first point on the board. That, and a clean sheet too – a deserved one away from home – meant there were more signs of what we are about.

“There is not a defining moment when you change things around and I don’t think we’ve been a million miles off, but we’ve had three out of four Premier League games away from home and we’ve had injuries that have stretched us.

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“Tonight you could see we are getting players back and we are coming back to the squad we know.

“We still have to build on it, don’t get me wrong, but tonight it just looked and felt better and more like a Burnley performance, but they’re only human, remember, and they are seeing their mates come back and getting fitter, so the in-house competition grows.”

Chris Wood headed against the bar in the second half with the best chance of the evening, with Ashley Barnes also forcing two fine saves from Baggies keeper Sam Johnstone.

Defensively, Burnley restricted the hosts to precious few sights of goal, with Nick Pope a commanding presence behind a resolute back line still missing skipper Ben Mee.

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“In both boxes we’ve not been as clean, if you like,” added Dyche.

“We had to do the right things defensively and in attack we made good chances tonight.

“We didn’t take them, but I don’t knock my strikers when they are in there to score. It’s when they are not in there to score that I worry, but they were alive in the box and we created enough tonight to win the game.

“It’s been a challenging time, with injuries and things going on, both on and off the pitch. But we know our way around the Premier League now and we’ll take the point.”